Bug 1526063
| Summary: | perl stops working after upgrade F26 -> F27 | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Donald O. <jblecker> |
| Component: | perl | Assignee: | Jitka Plesnikova <jplesnik> |
| Status: | CLOSED EOL | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | urgent | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | 27 | CC: | alexl, caillon+fedoraproject, emmanuel, iarnell, jplesnik, kasal, mbarnes, mmaslano, perl-devel, ppisar, psabata, rc040203, rhughes, sandmann, tcallawa |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | x86_64 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | If docs needed, set a value | |
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| Last Closed: | 2017-12-15 08:02:27 UTC | Type: | Bug |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Donald O.
2017-12-14 17:31:10 UTC
1) I removed perl and cpan 2) installed dnf install perl no perl binary to be found, then i installed 3) dnf install perl-core bash: perl: command not found whats going on? what is the output of "rpm -qa | grep perl" (please file this as an attachment if the output is too large)? What is the output of "dnf -y install /usr/bin/perl"? (In reply to Donald O. from comment #0) > Description of problem: > I can'r run my perl scripts because of module errors. To solve them I tried > to re-run my perl cpan script - which fails. [...] > Can't load '/usr/local/lib64/perl5/auto/Encode/Encode.so' for module Encode: > libperl.so.5.24: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory > at /usr/share/perl5/XSLoader.pm line 96. > at /usr/local/lib64/perl5/Encode.pm line 10. > Compilation failed in require at /usr/bin/cowsay line 18. Your problem is /usr/local/lib64/perl5/auto/Encode/Encode.so file. This is your local installation for Encode module from CPAN made when have installed Fedora 25 with Perl 5.24. Thus at file was built against libperl.so.5.24 library. After upgrading to Fedora 26 with Perl 5.26 the libperl.so.5.24 library was replaced with a new and incompatible libperl.so.5.26. But your /usr/local/lib64/perl5/auto/Encode/Encode.so still refers to libperl.so.5.24. The is known Perl feature that major Perl upgrades like from 5.24 to 5.26 are not binary compatible and thus users have to reinstall modules they had installed from CPAN manually. The easiest fix is removing all files you installed from CPAN (/usr/local/lib64/perl5 and /usr/local/share/perl5). guess it isn't as easy just replacing Encode.so. There are much more dependencies. Finally I dnf removed the whole perl mash and installed activeperl from perl.com. Thereafter everything is working fine so far. (In reply to Donald O. from comment #4) > guess it isn't as easy just replacing Encode.so. There are much more > dependencies. You need to remove (and possibly rebuild) everything below /usr/local/lib64/perl5 and /usr/local/share/perl5. > Finally I dnf removed the whole perl mash and installed activeperl from > perl.com. Your choice, your poison. I would not want to this. It's only a matter of time until similar issues will hit you again. > Thereafter everything is working fine so far. It only temporarily appears so, but it surely doesn't. > Finally I dnf removed the whole perl mash and installed activeperl from perl.com.
Out of curiosity, what are you trying to achieve that the system perl doesn't allow you to do?
see comment #2 1) I (dnf) removed perl and cpan 2) installed dnf install perl (whole lotta .pm files, but) no perl binary to be found, then i installed 3) dnf install perl-core bash: perl: command not found whats going on? ( I repeated that with the same effect. no way) (In reply to Donald O. from comment #7) > see comment #2 > > 1) I (dnf) removed perl and cpan > 2) installed dnf install perl At this point you should have installed "/usr/bin/perl" file that belongs to "perl-interpreter" package that is required by "perl" package. If not, then something is terribly wrong. Did the "dnf install perl" terminate successfully? Do you have installed perl-5.26.1-401.fc27.x86_64.rpm and perl-interpreter-5.26.1-401.fc27.x86_64.rpm packages (if your system has x86_64 architecture)? Does /usr/bin/perl file exist? Is the file executable? You can use "rpm -q perl perl-interpreter" to verify the two packages are installed. (In reply to Donald O. from comment #7) > > see comment #2 > That comment tells us what you did but not why you did it. > If not, then something is terribly wrong.
so it is. the dnf install terminated successfully. dnf info works, however a
dnf repoquery -l <pkg> had no effect on both perl packages, whereas a repoquery on cinnamon for example does what it should do. Thats why I moved to M$ activestate perl, which workes out of the box, and finished my large cpan install {...} perfectly within a couple of minutes.
Guess something basically wrong after two upgrades (from 25->26->27). I also experienced massive virtual memory utilization with the 4.14.5 kernel, therefore I booted 4.14.4 having a tiny 4mb swap file now after 4 hours. However thats a different problem.
guess its time to close it, as I found a solution working for me. Thank to all! *** Bug 1590973 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** |